Artificial bait



W. A. FOSS ARTIFICIAL BAIT. FILED UcT.-6. 1919.

Jan. 2, 192:3. 11,440,869

Patented Jan. 2, 1923.

WILLIAM A. FOSS, F CLEVELAND, OHIO.

ARTIFICIAL 3m. Application filed October 6, 1919; Serial no; saaeeo.

To all whom it may concern: relative pivotal movement so that the plate Be it known that I, WILLIAM 'A. Foss, a can be swung laterally to uncover the top citizen of the United States, and a resident of the body 10. A rod 13 has a rear eye 1d of Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga which is connected to the front of the plate 60 5 and State of Ohio, have invented certain new 11 and a front eye 15 which is adapted to be and useful Improvements in Artificial Bait, connected to the fishing line. A spinner 16 of which the following is a full, clear, and is ivotally held on the rod 13 and is proexact description. 'v1 ed with a single blade 17 which is adapted The invention relates to artificial bait; to vibrate the rod 13. 65

-10 In fishing, it is frequently desirable to use A recess 18 is formed in the top of the difierent sizes of hooks or hooks with dilferbody 10 andis adapted to receive the inteent lures, such as feathers or pork-rind, on gral eye 19 of the fish-hook 20 which may, as the same body. In practice, Ihave found that shown in Fig. 1, be' provided with a. feather a hook that is rigidly secured to the body is 21. A screw 22 has a head which is adapted 7 15 much more efiective in catching fish than to pass into a countersunk hole 23 in the when it is pivotally secured thereto and one plate 11 and a screw-threaded shank 24c object of the present invention is to prowhich is adapted to enter a correspondingly vide an artificial bait-body with a readlly threaded hole 25 in the body 10.- The redetachable and rigidl secured hook so that cess 18 is formed to confine the hook against 7 2 the fisherman can, with great facility, rigldly lateral movement and the screw is adapted to apply hooks of different sizes or hooks with clamp the. plate 11 down onto the eye 19 difierent lures or with or without lures to of the hook so that the latter will be rigidly the body. secured to the body. This screw can be A further object of the invention is to proreadily removed to permit the plate 11 to 80 25 vide an improved bait with a plate which be swung laterally relatively to the hook to tends to keep the bait on the surface of the release the eye 19 of the book. This conwater and which is shaped at its. rear so struction exemplifies a readily detachable that it will not interfere with-the fish being connection between the hook and the body caught on the hook when the strlke. which permits the fisherman to chan e the 85 The invention consists in the several novel hooks with facility at the same time rigidly features hereinafter set forth and more parsecuring the hooks to the body. For exticularly defined by claims at the concluample, in fishing, it is sometimes desirable sion hereo I to change the size of the hook or to substi- In the drawings: F 1g. 1 is a side elevation tute, for the feathered hook shown in Fig. 90

, of a bait embodylng the invention. Fig. 2 1, a plain hook, as shown in F i 7, or to use is a plan. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section. a double hook 27, as shown in Figs. 8 and 9. Fig. 4 is a detail of the hook. Fig. 5 is a The head 12 of he pin 12 serves as a butdetail perspective of the plate attached to ton for a flexible strip 28 of pork-rind or the body. Fig. 6 is a perspective of the other suitable material. 95 40 body. Fig. is a perspective showing a From the foregoing, it will be-seen that plain hook and pork-rind substituted for the the invention provides artificial bait by hook and feather lure shown in Fig. 1. Fig. which hooks may be readily and rigidly and 8 is a perspective showing a double hook interchangeably secured to the bait-body, substituted for the single hook. Fig. 9 is a so that the fisherman can readily substitute 100 perspective of the double hook shown in Fig. different hooks or lures.

Fig. 10 is a detail of a removable hook The plate 11' is provided with a flared, with an improved lure-holding device. Fig. round, front marginal portion 30 which is 11 is a detail perspective of said holding adapted to influence the bait to come to the device. surface of the water as the bait is being 165 The improved bait comprises a body 10 drawn through the water. The rear portion usually formed of metal or other suitable of this plate is flat and narrow, as at 31.. material in which a permanent .screw- The rear edges of the flared portion 30 are thread may be formed to the upper end of convergent, as at 32. An important adwhichaplate 11 is secured by a pin 12 which vantage inherent in this construction is that 110 passes through the plate and body and forms when a fish strikes at the hook 20,-the rear a pivotal connection therebetween to permit portion of the plate is so flat and narrow that it does not interfere with the fish being caught on the hook.

In Figs. 10 and 11, there is illustrated a .bait in which an improved holding device is used to secure the feather or hair on the hook. This device is formed of a strip of metal bent to form members 40 which are adapted to extend around the shank of the hook and to secure the double or front ends of the feather or hair to the hook. A strip 41 underlying the hook and rear members 42 adapted to extend around the shank of the' hook. Members 40 serve to hold the front ends of the feather or hook while they are being secured to the hook by a wrapping 43. The wrapping and holder areusually colored so as to form the attractive part of the lure.

The invention is not to be understood as restricted to the details set forth, since these may be modified within the scope of the appended claims, without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is:

1. In a fishing device, the combination of a body, a plate body, a hook having an eye adapted to pass between the plate and the body, and a screw adapted to pass through the plate and eye into the body to interchangeablyand rigidly secure the hook to the body.

2. In an artificial bait, the combination of a body forming a weight, a hook rigidly secured to the body and a plate having a flat portion extendin longitudinally of and secured to the top 0 said body and having its front margin flared and its rear portion flared toward said body.

WILLIAM A. FOSS.

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